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|| Act of Incorporation and 
|| By-Laws of the Young 
| People’s Missionary 

Movement 








156 Fifth Avenue 
New York 
1907 


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CONTENTS 


I. ACT OF INCORPORATION 


1. Members of Board of Managers . 5 
2. Composition of Board of Managers 6 
3. Terms of Office 6 
4. Powers of Corporation.. 7 
Il. BY-LAWS 
1. Meetings . . . BH eee Sa 
2. Officers and Their nee een 1 
3. Standing Committees and Their 
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MP ATENGIMENTS ied eo enie litte used 6 





AN ACT 


To Incorporate the Young People’s 
Missionary Movement of the 
United States and Canada 


The People of the State of New York, repre- 
sented in the Senate and Assembly, do enact as 
follows: 


Section I. Marcellin C. Adams, J. G. Brown, 
William F. Cochran, Jr., Ed. F. Cook, Stephen 
J. Corey, James S. Cushman, Frank Harvey 
Field, William O. Gantz, Howard B. Grose, W. 
T. Gunn, F. P. Haggard, Harry Wade Hicks, 
S. S. Hough, Eldon B. Keith, Marion J. Kline, 
WiiressLesliens Ree Pas Mackay, lb Moore; 
Harry S. Myers, Joseph R. Paull, A. L. Phil- 
lips, Howard Platt, T. Bronson Ray, T. H. P. 
Sailer, William J. Scheiffelin, Laird H. Simons, 
Leslie M. Shaw, Francis Louis Slade, F. C. 
Stephenson, Ezra H. Stevens, S. Earl Tay- 
lor, Samuel Thorne, Jr., Canon Tucker, Von 
Ogden Vogt, Charles R. Watson, Luther D. 
Wishard, Geo. H. Wood, John W. Wood, their 
associates and successors in office, are hereby 

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constituted a body corporate and politic by the 
name of the Young People’s Missionary Move- 
ment of the United States and Canada, for the 
purpose of cooperating with the home and foreign 
mission boards of the United States and Canada 
in carrying out the objects of these boards. 


Section II. The management and disposition 
of the affairs of the corporation shall be vested 
in a Board of Managers composed of the indi- 
viduals named in the first section of this act as 
incorporators and their associates and successors 
in office. The said Board of Managers shall be 
composed of not less than thirty-nine members, 
one third of whom shall be elected by the Board 
of Managers at each annual meeting and shall 
hold office for a period of three years or until 
their successors are elected and have qualified. 
The thirty-nine persons named in the first section 
of this act shall constitute and be the first Board 
of Managers of said corporation, who shall serve 
until their successors are duly elected and have 
qualified. The Board of Managers at its first 
meeting after this act takes effect shall deter- 
mine by lot which thirteen members named in 
section one of this act shall serve until the first 
annual meeting of the Board of Managers; which 
thirteen members shall serve until the second 
annual meeting; and which thirteen members 
shall serve until the third annual meeting of the 
Board of Managers. The members of the said 
Board of Managers are authorized and em- 
powered to elect their successors and fill vacancies 
for any unexpired terms, and any failure to elect 
members: of the Board of Managers shall not 
work a dissolution of said corporation, but the 

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remaining members, though less than a quorum 
of said Board of Managers, may meet and fill such. 
vacancies. At all times a majority of the mem- ° 
bers of the said Board of Managers shall be 

secretaries of the home and foreign mission © 





boards of the United States and Canada. If any 9 


vacancies shall occur during the interim of the 
regular election they shall be filled by the Board 
of Managers. 

This corporation shall have no capital stock 
and shall pay no dividend, and no officer or 
committeeman of this corporation shall receive 
or be entitled to receive any pecuniary profit from 
the operations of this corporation, except that 
reasonable compensation for services may be paid 
to employees for services rendered in effecting 
the purposes of the corporation. 


Section III. The said corporation shall possess 
the general powers, rights, and privileges and be 
subject to the provisions of the general corpora- 
tion law of the State of New York and the acts 
amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, so 
far as the same are applicable and in accordance 
with this act, in so far as it is necessary to carry 
out the objects mentioned above in section one. 


Section IV. The said corporation shall in law 
be capable of taking, receiving, and holding abso- 
lutely and in trust for its general uses and pur- 
poses, by gift, devise, bequest, grant, or purchase, 
real and personal property, and of letting, leasing, 
and conveying the said real property, and shall 
also have the power to issue bonds and secure 
the same by mortgages upon its real estate and 
its improvements. All devises and bequests, 
however, to the said corporation shall be subject 

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to the provisions of the act of the Legislature 
relating to wills, passed April thirteenth, eighteen 
hundred and sixty, and acts amendatory thereto. 


SEcTION V. Said corporation shall have the 
power to make and adopt a constitution, by-laws, 
rules, and regulations, for the government of its 
business, the choice, qualifications, powers, and 
duties of its members, officers, and agents, and 
from time to time to alter and repeal such con- 
stitution, by-laws, rules, and regulations. 





BY-LAWS 


of the Board of Managers of the 
Young People’s Missionary Movement 
of the 
United States and Canada 





Incorporated under the Laws of the State 
of New York 





ARTICLE I 
MEETINGS 


SEcTION I. The regular meetings of the Board 
of Managers shall be held quarterly in the months 
of January, April, July, and October. The meet- 
ing in January shall be the annual meeting. 
Notice of each meeting shall be mailed from the 
, office of the Young People’s Missionary Move- 
ment of the United States and Canada at least 
. fifteen days before the date of said meeting. 

SEcTION 2. Seven members shall constitute a 
quorum for the transaction of business. 

Section 3. Meetings of all committees of the 
Board of Managers shall be held at such times as 
these committees shall determine. 


Section 4. Minutes of all committees of the 
Board of Managers and all department com- 
mittees shall be kept in separate volumes in the 
office of the Movement. 

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ARTICLE II 
OFFICERS AND THEIR DUTIES 


Section 1. The officers of the Board of Mana- 
gers of the Young People’s Missionary Move- 
ment of the United States and Canada shall be 
a Chairman, a Vice-chairman, a Recording Sec- 
retary, and a Treasurer, chosen from their own 
members. They shall be elected at the annual 
meeting by ballot, except that the first election 
shall be held at the first meeting of the Board of 
Managers following the granting of the charter 
by the New York Legislature. The Board of 
Managers may elect an Assistant Recording Sec- 
retary, who may be either a member of the Board 
of Managers or a secretary of the Movement. 


SecTIon 2. The Chairman, and in his absence 
the Vice-chairman, shall preside at the meetings 
of the Board of Managers and perform such other 
duties as devolve upon such officers. 


SEcTION 3. The Secretary shall keep all records 
of the Board of Managers and of the Executive 
Committee, and shall give notice of their meet- 
ings. 


SEcTION 4. The Treasurer shall receive all 
moneys coming to the Young People’s Mission- 
ary Movement of the United States and Canada, 
shall keep its accounts, and present at each regu- 
lar meeting of the Board of Managers a financial 
statement. Assistant Treasurers may be elected 
to handle details of the work of the Treasurer. 
One of these Assistant Treasurers shall be resi- 
dent in Canada and shall be elected on the nomi- 
nation of the Canadian Advisory Council here- 

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inafter provided for. He shall receive and 
transmit all moneys contributed in Canada toward 
the work of the Movement. The Treasurer and 
Assistant Treasurers shall give bond in such 
amount as may be determined upon by the Board 
of Managers or the Executive Committee. 


Section 5. The Board of Managers shall em- 
ploy an officer to be known as the General Sec- 
retary. 


Section 6. The General Secretary shall attend 
the meetings of the Board of Managers and_.all 
the standing committees. He shall have general 
supervision of the work of the Young People’s 
Missionary Movement of the United States and 
Canada and shall be the executive officer of the 
Movement in respect to all matters which have 
been determined by the Board of Managers or 
the Executive Committee, and all matters re- 
ferred to special committees. 


ARTICLE III 


STANDING COMMITTEES AND THEIR 
DUTIES 


Section 1. There shall be an Executive Com- 
mittee composed of the Chairman, Vice-chairman, 
Recording Secretary, Treasurer, and the Chair- 
men of all the standing committees of the Young 
People’s Missionary Movement of the United 
States and Canada. The Executive Committee 
may meet at such times between the meetings of 
the Board of Managers as it may determine. It 
shall have power with reference to all questions 

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which may come up for decision between the 
regular meetings of the Board of Managers, ex- 
cept that general policies adopted by the Board of 
Managers cannot be changed by the Executive 
Committee. Notice of the meetings of the Execu- 
tive Committee must be mailed from the office of 
the Movement to each member of the Executive 
Committee at least five days prior to the date of 
holding such meeting. 


Section 2. The following standing committees 
shall be appointed at the annual meeting by the 
Chairman with the approval of the Board of 
Managers and shall hold office for one year or 
until their successors are appointed: A Field 
Department Committee; A Sunday School De- 
partment Committee; A Finance Department 
Committee; A Publication and Office Depart- 
ment Committee; an Editorial Department 
Committee, and a Systematic Giving Department 
Committee. Such other committees as the Board 
of Managers may designate may be added. 


SECTION 3. The Field Department Committee 
shall have general supervision of the summer 
conferences, institutes, and other regular gather- 
ings, and of visitation in connection with the 
Movement’s activities except those hereinafter 
provided for. 


Section 4. The Sunday School Department 
Committee shall have general supervision of the 
work of this department, including conferences, 
institutes, and other regular gatherings, and of 
visitation in connection with the Movement’s 
activities in the Sunday-school field. 

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SECTION 5. The Finance Department Committee 
shall have general supervision of the financial 
affairs of the Movement. It shall submit to the 
Board of Managers at its annual meeting a 
budget of the income and expenditures of the 
Movement for the ensuing year. After the bud- 
get of the Movement has been adopted, no depart- 
ment shall exceed this budget except by the 
recommendation of the Finance Committee and 
a vote by the Board of Managers. 


Section 6. The Publication and Office Depart- 
ment Committee shall have general supervision 
of the Publication business and the office of the 
Movement. 


Section 7. The Editorial Department Com- 
mittee shall have general supervision of the edi- 
torial work in connection with all publications 
of the Movement and with the secular and ne- 
ligious press. 


Section 8. The Systematic Giving Department 
Committee shall have general supervision of the 
plans for the promotion of systematic giving. 


Section 9. Each of the department committees 
may have one or more secretaries for the carry- 
ing out of its plans. The secretaries of these de- 
partment committees, however, shall be employed 
by the Board of Managers upon recommendation 
of the different department committees. All of 
these secretaries shall be secretaries of the Young 
People’s Missionary Movement of the United 
States and Canada. 


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SecTION 10. Each department committee shall 
elect its Recording Secretary and submit its plans 
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in writing to the Board of Managers, except in 
cases where the department committee is given 
instructions by the Board of Managers with 
power. 


SeEcTION 11. At each annual meeting the Chair- 
man shall appoint a committee of three as a 
nominating committee to nominate the laymen 
for the Board of Managers and the officers of the 
Movement. 


SECTION 12. The representatives of the differ- 
ent mission boards on the Board of Managers 
shall be nominated from among the secretaries of 
those mission boards’ or societies which the 
Young People’s Missionary Movement may select. 
Such nominations for membership on the Board 
of Managers of the Young People’s Missionary 
Movement shall be made by the secretaries of 
those mission boards or societies invited to have 
representation or by the mission boards or so- 

-cieties themselves. The Canadian Advisory 
_ Council hereinafter provided for shall select the 
Canadian boards to have representation on the 
Board of Managers of the Young People’s Mis- 

' sionary Movement. 

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SecTIon 13. The Board of Managers, by a ma- 
jority vote of those present at any regular meet- 
ing, may elect by ballot suitable persons to act 
as members of an Advisory Committee of the 

Young People’s Missionary Movement of the 

United States and Canada. The Canadian mem- 

bers of this Advisory Committee shall be nomi- 

nated by the Canadian Advisory Council here- 

inafter provided for. The term of office of all 

members of the Advisory Committee shall expire 
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with the annual meeting held in January of each 
year. 


SEcTION 14. At least seven members of the 
Board of Managers of the Young People’s Mis- 
sionary Movement shall be residents of Canada. 
These seven members from Canada shall consti- 
tute an Advisory Council of the Board of Mana- 
gers on work in Canada. There shall be at least 
one member from the Canadian representatives 
on each of the standing committees of the Young 
People’s Missionary Movement. This Advisory 
Council shall nominate to the Board of Managers 
the laymen to represent Canada on the Board of 
Managers of the Young People’s Missionary 
Movement and shall be the medium through 
which the nominations of the Canadian mission 
boards shall be made to the Board of Managers 
of the Young People’s Missionary Movement. 


SECTION 15. Special committees may be ap- 
pointed by the Chairman of the Board of Mana- 
gers as occasion may require. The Chairman and 
General Secretary shall be members ex-officio of 
all committees. 


Section 16. No committee or officer shall con- 
tract indebtedness unless there has been an ap- 
propriation for such expenditure previously au- 
thorized by the Board of Managers. 


ARTICLE IV 
ORDER OF BUSINESS 


The order of business at all regular meetings of 
the Board of Managers shall be as follows: 
1. Scripture reading and prayer. 
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2. 


Reading and approval of minutes of pre- 


ceding meeting. 


2. 


Report of Treasurer. 


4. Reports of Secretaries. 


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. Reports of Standing Committees. 
. Reports of Special Committees. 

. Unfinished Business. 

. New Business. 

. Adjournment. 


ARTICLE V 
AMENDMENTS 


These By-laws may be amended at any regular 
or special meeting of the Board of Managers by 
a majority vote of those present and voting, 
provided notice of the proposed amendment shall 
have been given to each member of the Board of 
Managers by mailing to him at his last known 
place of residence at least thirty days before 
such meeting a copy of the proposed amendment 
and the section of the by-laws to be amended. 


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